What's the difference between certitude and rectitude?
Certitude
Definition:
(n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
(2) Extension of previous studies adds to the ever-growing body of nursing knowledge and increases the certitude, casualty, and generalizability of such investigations.
(3) Moreover, certain arteries are not easily accessible and thus not always found or at least recognized with certitude.
(4) Certitude has taken this approach to support patients with mental ill health.
(5) Or at least the profound certitude of a fundamentalist cleric.
(6) A ham-fisted attempt to explain away the picture as a prank by hackers failed, as did a subsequent claim that he could not say with "certitude" that he was the man behind the bulge.
(7) The inflammatory reactions around the fungus give the certitude that it is a pathogen and not a contaminant.
(8) Scientist's norms (principally honesty, objectivity, tolerance, doubt of certitude, and unselfish engagement) are in danger of serious distortion unless broadened to apply to the relations between scientists and nonscientists.
(9) This technique makes it possible to obtain a bacteriological certitude in 31 cases (65 per cent): Pott's disease (40 per cent) and 12 pyogene spondylodiscites (25 per cent), with 17 punctures remaining negative, including 5 technical failures, the needle not penetrating into the pinched disc.
(10) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(11) In two cases, this test was the only way that permits us to have certitude of candidosis ocular diagnosis.
(12) In the group with primary reflux, barium swallow tests and endoscopy were useful in confirming the diagnosis in patients with typical symptoms; routine biopsy, lower esophageal sphincter, manometry or an acid infusion test did not add to diagnostic certitude.
(13) In four cases out of six the histological test of the pleural fragment has rendered evident the presence of tubercular lymphoepithelioid nodulus with central necrosis, thus carrying the argument of certitude.
(14) Over the past 20 years, numerous investigators have implied or stated with increasing certitude that clonogenic assays are the most valid (or only valid) approach to predictive chemosensitivity testing.
(15) The influence of altitude can be demonstrated with certitude.
(16) Seeing as he was in reality monstrously wrong, this certitude had dire consequences.
(17) The definitive diagnosis of certitude can only be made by electron microscopy with the identification of various developmental stages of the parasites.
(18) We’re yet to be convinced that you could have a sufficient rules-base and certitude by alternative approaches.
(19) But Wilson cautioned against going after Rubio, who he said has a “natural talent, speed and certitude” that Bush simply lacks.
(20) Treatment is exclusively surgical and diagnosis is confirmed with certitude by histopathology only.
Rectitude
Definition:
(n.) Straightness.
(n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
(n.) Right judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(3) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
(4) The use of this therapeutic group follows precise rules: far and near rectitude, normal binocular vision.
(5) Once in charge, they believe they are done with such childish things, and can’t conceive of circumstances in which they will be judged – especially when convinced of their own rectitude.
(6) But this is a crude morality tale that infers moral rectitude from market success.
(7) ‘The only guide to a man is his own conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.’” The church has recently voiced its disquiet over government reforms to the economy and welfare.
(8) It was then that we encountered an assortment of reputable commentators in the English broadsheets depart from the norms of rectitude and integrity that characterise their writing.
(9) Despite deep cuts, inflicting real hardship, he had to slip two years and delay fiscal rectitude until 2017-18, but to no great outcry.
(10) But to the incredulity of his own supporters, the chancellor sticks to the path of fiscal rectitude.
(11) Activists reported that the child benefit announcement, designed to demonstrate fiscal rectitude, went down especially badly on the doorstep in the Heywood and Middleton byelection campaign – where Ukip is looking like a potentially serious challenger to Labour next month.
(12) After all, this turns out to be the week that the scourge of capitalism John McDonnell lectures on fiscal rectitude, scourge of the lobby Jeremy Corbyn celebrates 32 years of rebellion by leading the party into a new era, and the moon turns red.
(13) health, work, generosity rectitude, authority, attractiveness, integrity etc., are, in their evaluation, influenced both by sex and by the hygienic behavior practiced.
(14) It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.
(15) In cinemas, meanwhile, Captain America: the Winter Soldier – featuring a superhero who rivals Superman for square-jawed rectitude – just set a record for the month of April by scoring $96.2m (£58m) at the domestic box office on its opening weekend.
(16) The regulators’ decision to jettison the approach of the past three years of prioritising staffing levels ahead of financial rectitude has been prompted by the NHS’s increasingly frantic efforts to tackle the spiralling deficit which hospitals in England are racking up, projected to be £2.2bn by the end of March.
(17) For southern Europe as a whole, the single currency has proved to be a golden cage, forcing greater fiscal and monetary rectitude but removing the exchange rate as a critical cushion against unexpected shocks.
(18) There was no reform of the force; indeed political support for it, given personally from Thatcher, seems to have hardened Wright’s sense of rectitude.
(19) In case of complete palsies, the objective consists in obtaining primary gaze rectitude.
(20) But Labour, too, is hamstrung by its unnecessary fiscal rectitude bill, binding itself to cut the deficit in half in just four years, copying the Tories again.